So I just closed on a duplex a couple days ago & Im going to be house hacking.

@Loren Souers Couple of questions. 

I understand the risk it comes with if I have vacancies, but I do have a couples of months of mortgage saved to use in case I get stiffed.

Platforms like Avail can help if you prefer to self-manage but still require time for repairs.Tax-wise, repair costs may be deductible immediately, while major improvements must be depreciated over 27.5 years.

I'd prefer a small business.

I reached out to my investment advisor who pointed me to a couple books that opened my mind to the other possibilities.

I know of a couple people who are doing this very unscrupulously at the moment and have seen how they are structuring their deals.

Plan is to purchase a couple homes over the next year.

Do those both not increase every year or every couple of years at the minimum.

My wife and I use to live in central GA and in North Carolina but moved out to Arizona a couple years ago.